A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all.

That favorite subject, Myself.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

We must take our friends as they are.

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.